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Show MARRIED AT THE AGE OF 150 4 . ! his poverty prevented him from faring far-ing very sumptuously. He was a moderate mod-erate drinker of native liquors for 165 years, and his memory did not go back to the time when he began smoking Mexican hand-made cigarettes. ciga-rettes. "This Methuselah of modern times was born and lived within the shadow of Mount Collma. El Cano. He was a witness to the destruction of Tuxpan by an earthquake in 1S06, when over 1,000 people were killed." -! "urther Substantiation cf Aztec Indian's In-dian's Remarkable Record He Died et 185. Austin, Tex. Further substantiation f the report from Tuxpan, Mexico, )f the death some time ago of Jose Talvarlo at an age lacking only 15 rears of the two century mark, was :ontained In a letter received here !rom Frank L. Watson, an American mining man at Coloma, Mexico. "I was at Tuxpan on the day Cal-vario Cal-vario died," he writes. "I had seen :he old man walking about the streets it the town many times and he was Dften pointed out to me as being nearly near-ly 200 years old. So interested were the state officials In the report of the I great age of the man that a special commission was appointed to investigate investi-gate the claim. The records of the parish church show that he was born in 1727. He left 7,000 descendants. ."He often told his friends in a joking jok-ing manner that he had the largest family of any man In the world. No one knows bow many times he was married, but It Is commonly reported that he married his last wife when he was past tha age of 150 years and that Lhey had several children. "Calvarlo was an Aztec Indian. He tte whatever he liked and, of course. |